Disseminated histoplasmosis in renal allograft recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 160-165

  Peddi, V Ram ^a   Hariharan, Sundaram ^a   First, M Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; Histoplasmosis; Immunosuppression; Itraconazole; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MYCOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ITRACONAZOLE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0029881266     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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